Creative Media Services

We support UCL by providing design and
imagery for use in teaching and learning,promotion, PR, and research.
Our aim is to provide services of the highest quality at an affordable
cost, without compromising creativity.

Offering extensive expertise in creating and delivering all forms of
media content using the various methods available: publications,
presentations, audio podcasts, slideshows, videos, and online materials.

Design

Professionally
designed work attracts far more attention and the
team advises on usage of the UCL visual identity in publications so that
it is used appropriately across all printed and
electronic materials. Where appropriate, the team will advise and create
corporate branding, logo and identity design for UCL academic departments,
research projects and Professional Services teams.

Design for web is an aspect to the work undertaken where we work
for many UCL Departments in collaboration with web developers in the ISD Web
& Mobile team, creating websites that conform to the style guide, keeping a
degree of uniformity, whilst providing originality.

Media production

We make films to present the University’s teaching, research and
PR activities to a global audience and have a great deal of experience in
producing material for teaching, research and for promotional purposes. We
capture important events that occur across UCL in the form of lectures,
visiting dignitaries, cultural and newsworthy events.

Work is recorded either on location or in the studio and edited to
a broadcast-standard High Definition format before being converted for mainly
online publication through UCL chosen delivery channels such as UCLTV on
YouTube, SoundCloud and streamed through UCL websites. Events such as Lunch
Hour lectures are videoed and streamed live to an ever increasing audience.

We also provide services such as audio capture, video editing,
encoding and duplication. The team will work whenever and wherever necessary in
making recordings.

Photography

The increasing need to add visually stimulating and informative
material to UCL websites, blogs and portals requires constant flow of new
imagery produced in high quality. The photographer’s day is spent covering all
aspects of UCL activities photographing people in their working environment,
which includes experiments, labs, offices, workshops, works of art, museum
objects and specimens.

Throughout the year requests are made for undertaking
photography of the UCL estate, capturing the architectural changes of both
interiors and exteriors also staff and student group and portrait photographs.
The area of business growth over the last few years has been in the
Digitisation and Scanning of UCL held material especially from Library –
Special Collections and UCL Museums.

Poster production & printing

Our large-format poster printing & lamination service is
offered in print sizes from A4 to oversize A0 and are of photographic quality. We
supply Pop up banners and display signage and we are now branching out into the
field of Digital wallpaper using a low tack non-destructive substrate.

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About Creative Media Services and related information

We charge, at a competitive rate, for all services, this covers
all direct costs and contributes towards keeping our equipment costs to a
minimum. Customers must provide us with a University eIDT charge code for all
our services.